10 years of Internet product design

Wen/thousand Birds

1997, known as China's Internet year. In July of that year, NetEase set up one months later, provided free personal homepage service immediately. That is to say, since July 1997, the word "web designer" has already appeared on the lake. On the generation, Sohu is officially launched in February 1998, Sina is the December 1998 four to facilitate the acquisition of Huayuan information before the official name.

July 1998, NetEase Personal homepage users reached 20,000 people, these people are truly the pioneer of the Web site. have free to put the site space, naturally willing to put in a lot of netizens, new sites hundred flowers, excellent work is naturally a benchmark for everyone to learn. Since then, to teach others how to do Web pages, as well as the need to do the Web page of the pictures, code and other free resources to become a natural demand, web design topics related to the Chinese site began to increase year by day.

The group of Web designers, starting from 1999, has been increasing year by year. If you need to define the first year of a web design, I think it should be from 1999, because the previous site, can say 99% do not pay attention to design, including the then famous companies and brands. Compared to the site screenshots that can now be found, the design standards of the global sites around 1999 are similar, although English-language websites develop a few years earlier than Chinese websites. (The first English website was born in August 1991, the first Chinese website was born in May 1994.) ）

Early web design is affected by the impact of external professional concepts, and what is popular. 1999 popular Flash, so we all go to learn animation, out of the work is very "moving" sense. 2003 Popular GUI, so we all go to learn the graphical interface, out of the work is very "quality" sense. 2005 began to blow UCD and UE, SO everyone to learn to user-centric and user experience, but this time we lost, because UCD and UE is NOT operable, we do not know what "sense" is the user needs.

So far, the Chinese website design, the Chinese Internet product design domain is a more chaotic state. But what can be seen is that at least there are such a bunch of people working on the practice of summing up, and gradually formed an independent knowledge system.

1999

It was the dotcom bubble, but it was a time when Chinese personal web designers were more active.

September, the Flash guest Empire (flashe-mpire.com) was born, focused on the animation industry, serving Chinese mainland and the global Chinese community, by netizens called "China's first stop." Flash technology was praised by web designers, many web designers to be proud of animation, as long as the page can be a good work.

October, the birth of the Blue Classic (blue-idea.com), the website related topics as the core content of the free Service site, the decade has accumulated to become the most influential web site design professional website. Influenced by generations of web designers, it can be said that more than 90% of the current web design practitioners from Blueidea's classic forum.

2002

The rise of personal blog, gradually reduce the threshold of personal web site, various template applications are also promoting the overall level of web design promotion.

August, NetEase personal homepage space announced "full charge", it was said that there were 800,000 free users. In August of that year, Xingdong and Wang blog and started blogging in China. This new kind of content organization and dissemination form quickly get the Netizen approbate, become in miniature of fictitious society, the blog Service provider (BSP) starts to shake the position of the personal Homepage Network service provider gradually.

2003

Graphical user interface style sites are starting to pop up.

January, Chinauicom was born, focused on the user interface field. The first forum, two or three years time, the UI myth to the highest point, but also let many colleagues mistakenly think UI design=web design. At that time engaged in web design very depressed, the overall level of low, poor market environment.

2004

April, April Fool's Day Google launched 1G super big mailbox Gmail. At the strategic level, basically broke some companies to do the idea of charging mailboxes, but also side to promote the industry's overall design of mailbox products upgrade. Competition is really good, constantly inspire creativity and innovation, and let consumers continue to get new enjoyment, new experience.

UPA the first international conference in China in December, the usability concept was first raised in the media. To further promote the user experience in China's development and recognition, laid a good foundation.

2005

April, the Chinese version of the "Web site refactoring" listing, completely subvert the traditional web design mode. With the average level of domestic peers at the time, it's incredible, using layers to layout? In the past textbooks are absolutely not recommended.

October, Uigarden.net Online, Chinese called UI Garden. Although the Uigarden domain name is only about the UI, but its forum is the domestic UCD as well as the related series noun concept earliest Chinese discussion area, at that time the industry more leading practitioners, including now on the River Lake's some "characters" were mixed in the above, now still can find their old posts.

November, NetEase News revision (on the same day, Ding Lei announced a comeback as the CEO of NetEase), the layout style to change the newspaper route, so that users refreshing. Completely abandoned the traditional web site of the three-column-style page structure, innovative improvement for the unprecedented large two-column layout, reduced content, adjusted the text line spacing, the first time in the Chinese news site to achieve the "user-centric" design concept of the landing. What is more commendable is that the revision adopted the "website Refactoring" design ideas, comply with international standards, and become the industry's successful example.

2006

January, NetEase personal homepage space announced "Close personal space", this is to promote the development of Chinese web design to make outstanding contribution to the product died at the age of 8 years and 6 months. Analysis of its causes, mainly by free blog, free space, the impact of toll space users drop sharply, forcing NetEase to terminate service. At the same time, those who can book the history of the work from the Internet to ashes, not to say is a regret.

May, Yahoo home page revision, using a new AJAX technology to enhance the user experience at the interactive level. At the design level, creating a portal customization precedent. At the same time, also taught everyone a rigorous and effective revision program.

August, the Chinese version of "Midas Touch" listing, this is the "professional" it books, incredibly walked into the bestseller route, let countless people surprised. Naturally, this is related to the depth of the book and the language style of foreigners, and later came out a lot of imitators, unfortunately all unsuccessful. Translator called Windy, is also the first professional interactive design technology website de Dream founder.

September, Taobao ued blog opened, this is the first domestic commercial companies to establish a local ued team. A few years down, ued this is not a very appropriate word in the present point of view (usually the design involves only UE compared to the surface of the experience demand), has become the standard department of domestic internet companies, practitioners are also able to enter such a "professional team" as proud.

2007

March, Ucdchina.com On-line, positioned in the field of Internet product design, artificial screening, aggregation peer personal blog Essence of the information site, and did a certain degree of subdivision and organization.

Ucdchina The first official meeting in Beijing in August. As of May 2010, the country has been Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Chengdu, Fuzhou, nine official points, and in November 2009 successfully held the first annual meeting in Guangzhou.

October, the Chinese version of the "Elements of user experience" listed, it should be said to be more authoritative comprehensive description of the Web user Experience Knowledge framework, the Chinese and foreign counterparts widely recognized. In the concept map, you can see clearly the position and impact of the UI in the Web user experience.

2008

MARCH, "UCD spark COLLECTION" LISTED, all content from Ucdchina official blog, a large group of authors to complete. Content positioning is mainly the internet, there is no wisdom or a variety of empty theory, is in the practitioner's point of view to do a lot of practical thinking.

2009

July, Yahoo Home again big revision. The official report claimed to be the most "thorough" adjustment of the home page in more than 10 years. On the one hand is the company's original web content and related products, on the other hand, Facebook and Twitter and other popular social web services. Via

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